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Irish workers in for biggest pay rise since financial crisis

Irish salaries are expected to grow nearly seven percent over the next two years, according to estimates published by the Irish central bank on Wednesday. Wages are expected to rise by 3.3 percent in 2018 and in 2019, twice the current eurozone rate, the bank's quarterly bulletin said.

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Populists and Eurosceptics are slowly realising that the goal of dismantling the EU is not only unrealistic, costly and unpopular - but also deprives them of valuable opportunities to accumulate political capital and exert influence.